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I've got fed up of carrying my camera with the neck strap. It is a strain on the neck, it bounces around, and if I bend forwards to pick something up or to open a gate it swings forward and can hit something. I've seen people with a sling strap that goes over one shoulder and hangs down above the hip so I thought I'd investigate.

There are online sites you can upload camera images to which tell you your camera's shutter count. Most didn't seem to work for me with my D7100 - I never looked in to why. This oneliner in Perl will do it.

I don't usually get too involved in politics other than taking an interest and of course voting but there is one thing I'm passionate about and it is our country's wildlife. I see all sorts of examples of where our wildlife and conservation is taking a back seat to in particular development (e.g., the +Yorkshire Wildlife Trust first conservation area at Askham Bogg, near York which is under threat right now - see http://www.ywt.org.uk/York). With a new election coming up soon we need more politicians up for election to state what they are going to do to protect our wildlife, reserves and conservation areas.

The RSPB have started a campaign "vote for bob" to make sure our politicians know we are concerned about our natural places. If you want nature back on the agenda then please vote at http://voteforbob.co.uk

I'm putting this here as a reminder to myself and in case it helps anyone else.

I have an NVidia GTX660 (latest driver) and an ASUS pb278Q connected via the display port. I have the power settings to turn off the monitor after 30 minutes and mostly leave the machine turned on. However, often when I come back to the machine and hit a key on the keyboard or wiggle the mouse the machine wakes up but my screen is blank.

I use a Nikon D7100 camera and Nikon's Capture NX2 software. Recently Nikon have released a beta of some new software (here) they've got another company to produce and when it goes live Nikon will stop supporting Capture NX2. I wrote about the problems this will cause me and thousands of others at Nikon Capture NX is dead, Nikon have stolen our property and left us high and dry. Now it appears the subject of that post might be a bit over the top (I was really annoyed when I read the beta announcement of the new NXD beta) but the fact remains I (and countless others) have got thousands of hours of image editing that could potentially be lost. What is the problem?

The thread on dpreview that started this off is at here. Basically, Nikon have got Silkypix to write a new editor (NXD) for Nikon and will stop supporting Capture NX. You can try the beta of NXD here. The beta feedback page is here and the official comments include things like:

I just released the 3rd development release of DBD::ODBC (1.39_3). Apart from a few bug fixes and other changes (see below) this release adds support for MS SQL Server Query Notification. Query notification allows an application to request a notification from SQL Server when the results of a query change. Once set up you can block on an execute call waiting for the query to change. Here is an excerpt from the pod:

Back in 2011 I wrote Faster HTTP usage. At the time Curl was the winner for the way I use HTTP. Since then a few more HTTP client modules have appeared on the CPAN and I was nudged by Tim Bunce to repeat my testing with the newer Hijk and HTTP::Tiny.

I have owned a Nikon D3100 for a few years now. I generally have it set up to take nef/raw images and in camera processed jpg files so I end up with a load of files on my SD card called _DSCNNNN.NEF and _DSCNNNN.JPG. I sometimes edit the raw/nef files in Nikon capture NX and write a new JPG out as _DSCNNNN_copy.JPG and upload it to picasa or Nikon or google plus.